80s Music
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I graduated high school in 2005. The popular music scene of my teenage years... Well, never impressed me.
Hence why I tend to take a view of music divorced from a particular place and time.
That being said, I don't think it is pure nostalgia speaking in your post. Those are some good choices.
We already hit grunge, retro revivals, and your list of alt-rock bands, and I will even add...
Some others have mentioned the metal of that era (Metallica was 1991)
Radiohead and other prog revival bands (some of the alt-rock ones could qualify)
Ska (e.g., No Doubt, Reel Big Fish)
Pop-punk (e.g., Green Day, the Offspring)
Lots of good stuff. Good era. But didn't last forever.
Samsies.
I don’t know how I forgot about throwing ska in there. I was just listening to RBF - Turn the Radio Off a few days ago. I’m a big early Eminem fan too. That never gets old to me. I had a bootlegged cassette of the Slim Shady LP way younger than I should have.
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This video has always stuck with me. I think it’s Ronnie’s hilarious idea of “acting.”
He sings “You‘re just a picture” - he makes his hands into the shape of a picture frame. Then “you’re an image caught in time” as he points at his wrist - “time,” wristwatch, get it? Hilarious.
Me personally, I spent way too much of my time in college between 1982-1986 watching MTV, especially 1983 through 85 ... you know, back when “Music Television” meant TV that played music videos.
I can’t pick a single real standout, but I will put Owner Of A Lonely Heart up there against anything. I was also a huge fan of The Fixx.
I LOVE 80s music! It's my era, so I'm completely biased. I enjoy listening to the Big 80s countdown on XM 80s on 8. They use the original Billboard top 40 for the current week in a rotating list of years from that decade. What I love most about the 80s is that there were so many different kinds of music and you could hear them all on the same stations. It was before radio had become so territorial with genres and not daring to play something that didn't sound like everything else on their playlist. CHR stations would play rock, pop, dance, R&B, country, A/C, hairbands, freestyle, new wave, AOR, literally anything that was popular. You just don't get the variety anymore. I suppose that's good if you really only listen to one narrow type of music.
I have way too many favorite artists and songs to narrow it down much. The following is a sampling of songs that I have never grown tired of hearing, but would not necessarily qualify as 'absolute favorites.' But they'd obviously rank pretty high. In no particular order:
"Mad About You" - Belinda Carlisle
"The Reflex" - Duran Duran
"Knocked Out" - Paula Abdul
"Love And Affection" - Def Leppard
"Souvenir" - Rubber Rodeo
"Lay Your Hands On Me" - Thompson Twins
"Better Be Good To Me" - Tina Turner
"The One Thing" - INXS
"Girl Can't Help It" - Journey
"Nobody" - Sylvia
"Swept Away" - Diana Ross
"True Faith" - New Order
"Twist Of Fate" - Olivia Newton-John
"Le Bel Age" - Pat Benatar
"Who Will You Run To" - Heart
"Running Up That Hill" - Kate Bush
"Hanging On A Heart Attack" - Device
(Apparently, this is funny for some reason.
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I have way too many favorite artists and songs to narrow it down much. The following is a sampling of songs that I have never grown tired of hearing, but would not necessarily qualify as 'absolute favorites.' But they'd obviously rank pretty high. In no particular order:
"Mad About You" - Belinda Carlisle
"The Reflex" - Duran Duran
"Knocked Out" - Paula Abdul
"Love And Affection" - Def Leppard
"Souvenir" - Rubber Rodeo
"Lay Your Hands On Me" - Thompson Twins
"Better Be Good To Me" - Tina Turner
"The One Thing" - INXS
"Girl Can't Help It" - Journey
"Nobody" - Sylvia
"Swept Away" - Diana Ross
"True Faith" - New Order
"Twist Of Fate" - Olivia Newton-John
"Le Bel Age" - Pat Benatar
"Who Will You Run To" - Heart
"Running Up That Hill" - Kate Bush
"Hanging On A Heart Attack" - Device
(Apparently, this is funny for some reason.
)
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I frickin love 80's music. Just all of it. I mean, COME ON!
80s was the best decade for music and it isn't very close.
1984 alone features a ridiculous amount of pop culture and its corresponding music:
GREMLINS
KARATE KID
GHOSTBUSTERS
THE TERMINATOR
FOOTLOOSE
TEMPLE OF DOOM
SPINAL TAP
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
CHILDREN OF THE CORN
AMADEUS
THE NEVERENDING STORY
POLICE ACADEMY
FIRE STARTER
BEVERLY HILLS COP
SIXTEEN CANDLES
GREMLINS
KARATE KID
GHOSTBUSTERS
THE TERMINATOR
FOOTLOOSE
TEMPLE OF DOOM
SPINAL TAP
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
CHILDREN OF THE CORN
AMADEUS
THE NEVERENDING STORY
POLICE ACADEMY
FIRE STARTER
BEVERLY HILLS COP
SIXTEEN CANDLES
Find a decade with more iconic vehicles:
If you want to totally geek-out, here are some totally random lines from '80s songs, none of which include the song title.
I took a few punctuation liberties, to mimic auditory phrasing, as if anyone needs help.
“You play the gui-tar on the MTV.”
“I was dreaming when I wrote, excuse me if it goes astray.”
“But, the kid is not my son.”
“Where do we go? Where do we go now? Where do we go-oh?”
“It's a, nice day to … start again”
“She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went”
“Oh, can’t you see … you belong to me”
“You make a grown man cry”
“I’m on the hunt, I’m after you”
“Fab Five Freddy told me everybody’s fly”
“I can lock all my doors, it’s the only way to live”
“Can't you see me standin' here I got my back against the record machine”
“Foreign types with the hookah pipes say ‘Whey oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh’”
I took a few punctuation liberties, to mimic auditory phrasing, as if anyone needs help.
“You play the gui-tar on the MTV.”
“I was dreaming when I wrote, excuse me if it goes astray.”
“But, the kid is not my son.”
“Where do we go? Where do we go now? Where do we go-oh?”
“It's a, nice day to … start again”
“She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went”
“Oh, can’t you see … you belong to me”
“You make a grown man cry”
“I’m on the hunt, I’m after you”
“Fab Five Freddy told me everybody’s fly”
“I can lock all my doors, it’s the only way to live”
“Can't you see me standin' here I got my back against the record machine”
“Foreign types with the hookah pipes say ‘Whey oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh’”
Early candidate for the next "CF Notable Posts" compilation.
(But not the first early candidate, mind you. So don't get all giddy or something).
